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Clinical trialNCT00611260CompletedInterventional

Improvement in Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients With ICDs That Practice Meditation

SponsorUniversity of California, DavisEnrollment27Cardiac Resynchronization TherapyCongestive Heart Failure
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Summary

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This is a trial to examine the effects of meditation on the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias and the psychological profiles in patients with implanted cardiac defibrillators. We wish to test the following hypotheses: 1. Vipassana meditation reduces the incidence of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with congestive heart failure. 2. Vipassana meditation improves the psychological profile in patients with CHF. In this study, subjects meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be recruited into the study after obtaining informed consent. The subjects will then be randomized into either an experimental group ( Meditation) or into a control group (usual care).
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Uc Davis Medical Center

    Sacramento, California, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Apr 2007
Primary completion
29 Feb 2012
Completion
29 Feb 2012
Last update posted
30 May 2017
Registered enrollment
27
Registry id
NCT00611260
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